"The philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) crisply explained why what we have come to call a “free market of ideas” must fail: facts cost labor, fictions do not" Timothy Snyder www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...

Greta Thunberg al llegar al aeropuerto de Atenas. Enorme.

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

Happy FlashForward Day!

administration’s spin on this is deliberately deceptive. And I mean that. We’re not talking about just a difference of opinion about medical or scientific issues. The document issued by the Trump White House literally double-counts studies to make it look as if there is more evidence in their favor

Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style

New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

da quello che ho visto nelle news negli ultimi anni, i fiumi pieni di merda in Uk non è metaforico e si capisce perchè

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

The Race to Write a History of Naples

The lifelong rivalry of two #earlymodern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

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I know mocking peoples' appearance is an ass move, but Larry Ellison's meatsack is clearly a decade past its use-by date and he *really* needs to go back to hell for a refit: his Beelzebub is showing.

added some sound

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Can these folks slow it down just a titch? I'm trying to write a book about End Times Fascism with @astra.bsky.social!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

infographic on the deadliest war for journalists, witnesses to genocide, slaughtered as never before

This is wild. It's as if human females could mate with chimpanzees and give birth to either humans OR selectively to cloned male chimps. (The ant species are that far apart.)

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

all heil the supreme leader Donald Steelie Trump and his druid Roberto Lisenkoys Kennedy

Comrade Charlie Kirk Is the new Lenin

What is a plutocracy? Exhibit A: the follies of mad emperors brought catastrophe to their empires.

terrorism in the UK

When a dictator talks about "freedom of speech" he really means that you do have freedom of speech.

He doesn't mean that you really have freedom after speech.

My son is studying engineering at university and living in student accommodation away from home. I expected the normal student problems of too much weed, alcohol and women. He has become vegetarian, found god and given up alcohol. I'm actually a disappointed parent.

And they can't complain

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for pointing out Kirk’s hate speech while Fox keeps Brian Kilmeade after he said killing the homeless via lethal injection would end homelessness.

A perfect example of how right-wing extremism is tolerated, but even pointing it out gets punished. The media reinforces this.

Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...

Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

The front page of Brazil’s largest paper today.